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/ 4 ls4l ana ls42 Dr. Joseph Rhods.
Buchanan locitsd isx-loss. ftisndship,
paxe1tal-love and pstriotism on. the ton
and Hide Of the brain. thus rsmsdyine
the error Of DR.. Gall.
!. AZ The same time he vas able to To-
cass The msnf faculties in the body
and thus 70 make Tho frst somstic ch 1T
and q the same time to releeate the
pseudo science Of theology 70 the mystic
realm Of "the unknowabls," and alsoto
give to.the psychologists physical ba,-
sis fof their theories and experiments.
Flourens. Eaeendis. Dalton and many
others, bv experimenting In vlvisectien,
bad rejected Calls doctrine Of ~ CORE
bellum and had clearly proved that its
functions were connsctsd simply With
locomotion. W' I
From 1872 To- 1870 DR.. David Fefrier
made numerous and careful experi-
'ments on the brains Of monkeys, dogs.
cats and birds.
His method was to make the animal
insensiBle with anasthetics. He then
removed portions Of the skull so as to
expose the brain. When the animals
recovered consciousness currents of
electricity were applied to different
parts of the brain and the results we're
carefully noted. At any one point the
excitement produced in this way would
always cause muscular movements Of a
certain kind. In this way he located
the centers Of movement of twenty -one
faculties. He simply called these facul-
ties motor centers," but was careful to
say that they were. in reality the cen
ters Of feelings Of which the motions
evoked are the natural gestures or ex-
pressions." AK IN
Fsrrier's experiments have been. re-
peated by many others and their valid
ity is strongly endorsed by the most
eminent Psychologists Of Europe and
America. See "Flint's Physiology"
page 6s4; "Dalton's Physiology" page
426. edition Of 1852; "Bastion on the
Brain" psges $50. $40. and $685.. The re-
sults of Ferrier's experiments were not
give to the world until 1872 to 1875.
Yet they demonstrated exactly the
movements or gestures that "Sidartha'
had discovered and described as belong
lug to these same organs and marked In
his engravings since 1859; thirteen
years before the experiments of Ferrier
were made. DR.. Radield located the
signs of character in the face eleven
years earlier-in lS4S -basing his obser-
vations upon the acute work of Alex
ander Walker, published in 1885,"
These first steps in the science Of man
have all been wrought out during the
present century. Until these were dis
covered all that man could know Of
himself was found in the vague and /un-
certain realm of speculative philosophy.
Experience and experimentw were all
he had to guide him in his efforts to
supply his most imperative needs. All
scientific truth was frsgmentary and
lacked coherencein its application to hu-
man wants. It remained to be seen
how far these discoveries of the organic
structure of the brain and the location
of the organs, together with the law Of
responses as partially shown in the ges-
lures excited by their actions. and es-
pecially the determination Of the nature
and character Of the two great centres Of
the brain, the thslaneus or centre ol
sensation" and "the stratum or center
Of motor processes" were to benefit the
conditions of humanity.
Hitherto the pseudo science of theol.
ogy or "The Science Of the Gods" had
determined the divine attributes Of "the
Supreme Deity" never once seeming to
have perceived the fact that these attri-
butes were natural to man and we're
bound up in his organization, and only
needed the right conditions of culture to
enable him. like his God, to become
master of the situation. These divine at
tributes were three-fold and comprised
in themselv YES the fullest conception man
can hope to attain to of intelligent, self
existing being: Wisdom, Love and
Will
TheoloRianS had Tor many generations
told man that che was made in the i'm
age and likeness of God," yet they had
ignorantly presumed to teach him that
"God was q spirit without body Or
parts" never once having thought to
study mans organisation that they
might lie able to comprehend the ma
ture anu character of the type from
which he was made. Man was here be-
fore them to be studied. analvsed and
comprehended, vet the Deity they wor-
SHIPPED was to them simply q mystery:
Yet With all their presumption taey
could not transcend the limits Of the
human organism in their delineation o I